Four Good Reasons To Use Prefold Cloth Diapers

It used to be that parents who used
cloth diapers were undertaking to scale the equivalent of Mount
Everest. The diapers were awfully thick and bulky, which made them
hard to store and even harder to fit onto your baby. The safety pins
necessary to cinch them shut were dangerous for parents and baby
alike. And that's not even mentioning the stress - and the odor - of
cleaning them. Prefold Cloth Diapers were far too much of a hassle.

Luckily for today's parents, cloth
diapers have improved a lot. There are a number of reasons why
choosing cloth diapers over disposable diapers makes good sense.

When you pick up a disposable diaper
today you are essentially picking up a sack of chemicals. Dioxins -
chemicals that have been linked to birth defects, liver damage and
some cancers - are byproducts of the bleaching process involved in
making diapers. And the chemical crystals that absorb fluids have
also raised red flags in the medical community. While you don't want
to overreact to this issue, reasonable parents can certainly choose
to eliminate the risk by using cloth diapers.

Disposable diapers cost more in the
long run than their prefold cloth diaper cousins! You save a few
bucks at the outset, but that doesn't last. Remember, prefolds are
resuable - that means that when you throw a disposable diaper into
the garbage pail, it's gone forever. But prefolds can last you and
your family for many years. Isn't that a better way to spend your
money?

If you want to be green, cloth diapers
can take you a long way in that direction. Disposable diapers
basically end up in landfills where they can hang around for decades
- and the waste in them can sometimes leach into water sources. Cloth
diapers don't have that effect on the environment. Moreover, cloth
and hemp - two fibers from which these diapers are made - are
renewable resources.

Cloth diapers have become much more
convenient over the years. For one thing, you can pick up a lot of
diaper accessories such as inserts and diaper covers to make the
process a lot simpler. The diapers themselves are easier to use -
consider using velcro instead of pins. And finally, there are so many
varieties of cloth diaper in the world that finding the right one is
not a chore at all.

These days, the argument for using
prefold cloth diapers is a pretty good one!